Quotes About Growth

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.

Now the Ariekei were learning to speak, and to think, and it hurt.

Era como volver a ser niña, aunque no lo fuera. No hay nada comparable a ser niño. Ser niño es solo ser. Después, cuando lo pensamos, lo convertimos en juventud.

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

utterly human moan started from him, and it grew and grew until it became a bird

The branches dropped shaggy creepers that, when they reached the earth, hardened into roots and pried apart paving.

Sometimes he opened books and found words that had defeated him the first time he had seen them, and that he had then written down and learned. It delighted him. He felt like a fox that had tracked them. That was how it was with thorough, and climber, and khepri. When he encountered them for the second time, they surrendered to him, and he read them without pause. In

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.

You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you are coming out the other side.

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

One step at a time is good walking.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Life begins the day you start a garden.

A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.